tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008375791436102784.post4544786458150692111..comments2024-03-28T03:23:23.959-04:00Comments on Simplicity by Lateblossom: Thanksgiving in MaySusan Raihalahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03018860599601419989noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9008375791436102784.post-39717588993339465792018-05-07T11:49:07.454-04:002018-05-07T11:49:07.454-04:00I love autumnal things, and this is beautiful! I&#...I love autumnal things, and this is beautiful! I'd pick out favorite details, but I like them all—paper, ink, arrangement, embossing, fonts, embellishments, everything.<br /><br />Papertrey's closed dies are frustrating to line up. I've found two methods that give decent results with them: cutting the die out of scrap paper first to create a mask, which you can position perfectly around your stamped image and then fit the die into like a puzzle piece; or cutting the die from unstamped cardstock and lining it up with the stamp in a stamp-positioning tool, so that you're stamping directly onto the pre-cut piece. The latter method is better for mass-producing cards, since you can tape your negative down and position your stamp, then just pop blank die-cuts into the negative and stamp away, without having to position everything each time the way you'd need to if you were using the negative to align the die over a stamped image. (I'm pretty sure I learned about the second method on PTI's blog, but the first I can't identify a source for other than stamping osmosis.)Caciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01892525960901159312noreply@blogger.com